Saturday, October 18, 2014
Still haven't Figured This Out Yet!
I still haven't figured this, or anything else out yet. And from here, it looks like there isn't much that any of us have figured out. Lets start at the beginning. Creation. Some people have figured out that there was a big bang, while others are still skeptical. But even those scientists don't know why life formed. What the hell is this vacuum that we exist in??? I haven't decided where I stand in the debate of some unseen force (a god?) giving things a higher purpose, or the existentialist view of uninhibited free will, that this here is all we get. There is no before, there is no after, there is no reason. What else haven't we figured out? We know that people have genes, and that our genetic codes have an influence on who we are, but we still don't know exactly how they do this. Are personality traits like confidence due 25% or 50% go genetic vs environmental factors? Nature vs nurture. Every single thing that we debate about! They show that we haven't figured out the universe. But, unlike the post prompt suggests, I disagree with the placement of a "yet" at the end of it. I don't believe that we ever will figure everything out. To figure everything out would be for our knowledge containing vessels to be full, and I do not believe that this is either desirable or possible. Not knowing things, not knowing if we have any purpose IS our purpose. Being able to search for some answers and have theories and debate our ideas is what gives us purpose. And so no, we weren't meant to be able to figure this out... ever.
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You wrote this just as I could hear you speaking it. I agree that we will never figure everything out, but I think there are some things that will become more tangible. For example, when you become a doctor you could discover a cure that hasn't yet been found!
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel that it's the most basic questions that we as humans have the most trouble figuring out. Further, many would like to glorify their past in some way, as well as their creation and reason for existence; it seems at times that only a glorifying answer (religion creation stories, etc.) will satisfy humans' pondering on such topics, which limits acceptance of new theories and of exploration.
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